@pwnah: "Hello newsgroups,
in  <url>
I announced the new version of Vincent Joguins disk transfer
utility Disk2FDI.
With my inital tests it occurred to me, that reading Commodore
C1541 diskettes seemed to be somewhat unreliable.
Today I tested another disk drive, that I modified to operate
at 300rpm to fulfill the special requirements of Disk2FDI (read
more about his hardware MOD in:
<url> )
Although Disk2FDI first needs to be changed a little bit to
fully support such modified disk drives (currently it is only
able to read track 1 of each disk), it did enough for me, so
that I was able to repeat some tests.
With these new tests and the other meachnics the reliability
problems seem to be gone. Maybe the Low-Density disk drive
(precisely 48tpi Double Density) I used earlier was
misaligned. Another reason may be, that the old drive was a
belt driven type, while my modified disk drive is a direct
driven one.
As soon as Vincent integrates support for speed modified
High-Density disk drives (running at 300rpm) into Disk2FDI
I'll repeat all of my tests and report again here.
Conclusion:
  * The 'reliability problem' reported on 2003-11-01 is
    not a general problem of the software Disk2FDI. It's
    more a problem of the hardware components used.
  * Modified HD drive mechanics may be used with a future
    version of Disk2FDI. That would make things a lot
    simpler since Low-Density drives seem to become rare.
Womo
    to obtain more infos about me, look up the page  
      <url>      pwnah (at) d81 (dot) de  "
    @pwnah: "Hi Cameron,
<quote>
It seems, that you missed the link of the post before:
 >> [...]
 >> (read more about his hardware MOD in:
 >> <url>
Read through the references of this article and you'll
surely get some valuable facts about disk drives and
their configuration. You would be able to do your own
mods then.
Yesterday I found another very interesting link. Dell's
support site got many additional technical informations
(jumper description) about floppy disk drives types
(and more):
   <url>
Womo
    to obtain more infos about me, look up the page  
      <url>      pwnah (at) d81 (dot) de  "
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